Comment Re:Step too far (Score 1) 47
One that's impossible to reproduce without all the little quirks of Word.
It's like reverting back to the Internet Explorer era, when every page was subtly broken.
Comment That's about 1% yearly production (6% solar) (Score 4, Insightful) 192
"more than 3 million megawatt hours of solar energy" is 3000 gigawatt-hours.
Total utility-scale electric generation for California was 287,220 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2022, up 3.4 percent (9,456 GWh) from 2021.
Utility-scale renewable generation increased 10.2 percent (9,520 GWh) in 2022 to 102,853 GWh from 93,333 GWh in 2021.
Solar generation increased 24.1 percent (9,492 GWh) to 48,950 GWh in 2022 from 39,458 GWh in 2021.
https://www.energy.ca.gov/data....
Comment Re:We have had 45 years of non-stop automation (Score 2) 123
It is not really exploitation if it is legal and the transactions are voluntary.
Boy, the billionaires are really, really glad that you feel this way.
Comment Re:Curious about delay (Score 1) 126
2. On the next launch we send the Boeing board members instead of astronauts.
1% failure rate?
Those are not good odds.
Comment Re:What's the deal with Slashdot polls nowadays? (Score 3, Funny) 333
I thought John F. Kennedy was the CowboyNeal option. Then reality hit me.
Comment There's a Wii game of the same name (Score 1) 29
Comment Re:I smacked into a cyclist once. (Score 1) 115
I'm with you as long as you put your flasher. Once the cyclist knows what you will do, he won't risk it.
Comment Re:How do you represent 1% of reviews in a blurb? (Score 1) 72
This game asks you to make painful choices. Amazon AI determined that it would be 5 stars if that wasn't the case.
Meanwhile, at boardgamegeek: 3.89 / 5 complixity rating.
Comment Re:Do we understand why? (Score 1) 48
If it's a trick like inverse square root, it's neat but we can't extent it further.
Like you said, getting random improvement is useful but unpredictable.
If it's more generalized, it can open new avenues of research and ultimately make us smarter.
Because it's a waste if AI only makes us dumb and dumber.
Comment Do we understand why? (Score 3, Insightful) 48
So the new code is faster.
Do we understand how it became faster, what insight we missed. That more interesting from my point of view.
Comment Re:My constant reminder (Score 1) 82
Free as in freedom applies to clouds, you know.
Comment Re:Actual ozone facts (Score 2) 30
Oops, missing the final L
Comment Actual ozone facts (Score 3, Informative) 30
Natural ozone concentration is 10-15 ppb throughout the atmosphere, but low ground pollution around 70 ppb is unhealthy.
https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.g...
That story is a little like removing DHMO from the atmosphere to empty pools and reduce drownings.
Comment Re:Electric cars aren't the future we want (Score 1) 193
That's weird, the office is a 20min drive and almost everything else is a 10min walk.
I guess I should wake up and join your dystopian nightmare.
Comment Re:Lunar Day? (Score 3, Informative) 34
Yep, the second sentence couldn't be more confusing.
> So a single "lunar day" is 13.64 earth days.
Lunar day (daytime only) vs earth day (24h, which includes nighttime).
